From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sans-dbus was: gnome intrusion?
Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 19:36:20 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161120003620.GA16081@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161119211734.12746.24E6124D@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 01:23:13PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote
> On 2016-11-19 23:07, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > Yes I know init and KDE are very very different beasts from different
> > eras with different approaches to getting stuff done and so can appear
> > completely different. But within the contact of /this/ thread, they are
> > very similar. And you don't understand one of them to anything like the
> > same standard you understand the other.
>
> I agree with this, this is the core of the issue.
>
> But you see: I don't need the features these new beasts provide. Why
> should I have to learn all that huge amount of information, crowding out
> things I actually _like_ to know from my declining memory, to keep control
> of my computing?
I use ICEWM. See my sig.
--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-20 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-14 9:32 [gentoo-user] gnome intrusion? Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 17:37 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-14 19:03 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 20:37 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-14 21:49 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-14 23:51 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-16 12:47 ` [gentoo-user] sans-dbus was: " Miroslav Rovis
2016-11-16 18:42 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 1:48 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-17 7:56 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-17 9:08 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-19 9:21 ` Kai Krakow
2016-11-19 19:06 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 19:16 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-19 20:47 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 21:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-19 21:23 ` Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-19 22:34 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2016-11-19 22:36 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-20 0:36 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2016-11-19 21:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Tom H
2016-11-19 22:15 ` Rich Freeman
2016-11-20 18:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-11-14 23:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Andrew Tselischev
2016-11-14 23:52 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-15 17:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2016-11-15 19:23 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-15 19:32 ` Alan McKinnon
2016-11-15 19:45 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 2:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Walter Dnes
2016-11-16 7:23 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 9:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2016-11-16 11:25 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-16 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
2016-11-16 21:20 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 20:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2016-11-17 20:49 ` Jorge Almeida
2016-11-17 23:32 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2016-11-14 23:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Kai Krakow
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